LAMENTATIONS: THREE STEPS TO PERDITION

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Inkjet on Canvas
28 x 24 x ½ in | 71 x 61 x 3.8 cm
2016

Rembrandt’s Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem provides the armature for Lamentations: Three Steps to Perdition, a keystone work in Dailey’s Lamentations series. In this pastiche of Rembrandt’s 17th-century rendering of the titular biblical prophet mourning the destruction of which he had prophesied, Dailey embeds nuclear iconography into Old Testament theology and imagery.